... Midlands derby with Nottingham Forest on Saturday lunchtime. Well, almost. As early reports broke on Monday, after a woeful capitulation to Rotherham two days before, it was made clear by chief executive ...

... . The coach of Arlesey Town in Bedfordshire cut her teeth with her son’s youth teams before moving onto Arsenal’s Regional Training Centre then to her current club, in the Spartan South Midlands League. Al ...

... South Midlands Spartan Division One at the expense of Broxbourne Borough. After an appeal by Hashtag, they were moved sideways to the Eastern Senior League South while Broxbourne were reinstated, a mov ...

... all and sundry. But there’s still a small pocket in the East Midlands that follow his fortunes with a half smile, remembering a cold January afternoon when the half-time scoreline read “Notts County 1, ...

... boisterous, drunken or oafish behaviour on the part of a highly paid football personality. It might be Peter Beagrie’s Great Escape re-enactment in a hotel foyer, Brian Law’s hijack of a West Midlands ...

... young fans gone? | How club rivalry began
Plus Dismay for the Irish teams | Italy: what went wrong | Arsenal’s title grab in 1989 | West Midlands non-League | No thanks to Tony Pulis | Wrexham on the ...

... eight groupings of between eight and 12 clubs: South West, Midlands, East Midlands, West, North West, North East and two Southern sections. The latter caused the most difficulties. The League’s 11 London ...

... ends on a sort of football version of London Orbital, where the author takes a bike ride around the Midlands’ stadiums where journeyman striker Trevor Benjamin played and which encircled his birth place ...

... a goal but not the scorer. This was despite the Dutchman’s tally including a goal in the East Midlands derby and a last-gasp equaliser against Liverpool, a combination which would normally go some wa ...

... excuse for missing the kick-off, anyway. Maybe you too have been similarly lured into a wrong turn by the forests of pylons around Teesside or in parts of the east Midlands coalfields. I walked for miles ...

... the new playing style and the emphasis on fitness and preparation, lived on. Professionalism was accepted and teams from the industrial north and midlands became dominant. Blackburn Olympic might not have ...

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Living in the West Midlands, the Sports Argus was our local sports paper, containing fixtures, results, goalscorers, line-ups, attendances and league tables from Division One to the Banks’s Brewery League. ...

... was a bad winter for weather and the Stoke tie was called off twice. Fans who couldn’t get down to the Midlands for a third time were to curse the postponements – they lost out on seeing one of the biggest ...

... motorways and would earnestly regale this information to indifferent classmates. A few years later I discovered football. Living in the West Midlands, the Sports Argus was our local sports paper, containing ...

... instream press here picking up on the events very late and then scrambling to analyse them, sending journalists and camera crews in their droves to the Midlands, only to discover that the team was actually p ...

... the Soccer Six was born. A pilot tournament for midlands teams, sponsored by the games console manufacturer Atari, was held at the National Exhibition Centre in 1981. Birmingham City beat Wolves in the ...

Frustration growing at The Hawthorns but there are glimpses of a bright future
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27 August ~ If West Midlands football seems to struggle for attention in the face of the national ...

... captured on film – with Wynne being arrested and taken to a holding cell. There, Wynne was repeatedly kneed in the head by PC Allsop of West Midlands Police while handcuffed on the floor. The assault only ...